Devonshire Road – c. 1912

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• Ken, I was trying so hard to remember what you told me about the streetcars in our e-mails Lol! Thanks for the correction! And yes, thats just a tail track.
  Gary - check the post from the other day when we were all talking about the tracks in this area to find out where that track goes.
  The post that Bernie provided info in.

• Thanks Gary, I always wondered what that why railing is there and figured it was used for something from a time long passed.

• i'll do that Aaron

• Ken i remember after the csx station burned the CSX used that office for a few months for possible train orders bills of lading by that time their trains only went as far as the interchange with the ESSEX TERMINAL

• if you take a look to the east of the old bank office on assumption just past the curve in the road there are still tracks in the pavement there i'm pretty sure those tracks once belonged to the PM who switched that spur i think that was the original spur for WALKERS tank farm

• Can anyone remember the last time a Pere Maquette train operated in the Windsor to St. Thomas line?
  I can remember back to the early fifties when C&O where still runing steam, they switched Leamington twice a day, if you where lucky some crews would let you ride in the locomoyive.
  Later when the blues GPs can whe also got ride them while switching. In those days if you where careful and kept out of the way good things happened.

• As I said befor ethe Belt line car would turn left onto Assumption, the track that goes straight on Devonshire was to service the PM station. Later the Erie Street car used this track to service the station and was the end of the Erie car line. The Erie car line run from here up Devonshire, turned left on Wyandotte, right on Monmouth which was double track to Ottawa, right on Ottawa, right on Parent, left on Erie, right on Ouellett, left on Sandwich and left on Ferry where the terminal was (today St. Clair College).
  The Cars Stop Here sign is where the car has to stop and the Condutor would get out and switch the track. All street cars in the Border Cities then where operated by two men crew.

• Richard i remember as a kid i didn't live far from the C&O line i don't know when the last PM train ran on this line a steam engine would have been a grand thing to see but i do remember the blue GP-7's that plyed this line once in awhile the crew would stop for lunch at the Tecumseh Rd crossing and get coffee and hotdogs at the snack bar at the Dominion store a few times we were allowed to ride in the cab as far south as walkerville Jct thats something i'll never forget quite a thrill for a 13 year old boy about 15 years ago i was given an old box of signal maintainer reports from the 40's and 50's by the fella that worked out of the section house at Pelton there were probably at least a couple hundred from over the years at the top of each page it said Cheseapeke&Ohio railroad PERE MARQUTTE DISTRICT i wish i still had those they got lost somewhere along the way rich the C&O took over the line in 1947

• Richard i belong to the Pere Marquette historical society any othe r info you have on Canadian Division operations way back then would be appreciated i know that the pere Marquette ran i passenger train between chatham and windsor every day i think their designation was 17&18 i just recently joined so i don't have alot of info other than what i've found on my own i'm curious if you remember the mixed that ran up and down the line

• THe only imformation about the line was from the early fifties on. At that time they served one tobbaco warehouse on Ivan St. two coal dealers, Truaxt Lumber,later Bennie Lumber or vise versa same location, four produce dealers Erie,James King, Howard James,andone on the south side of tracks near the station, their was also a gravel pit on the way to Ruthven.Their was also a diamond with NYC just west of Elliot St.
  I do not remember ever seeing any passenger trains, only mixed freight with the mix of the time.